Volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally.
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Examples for "turpentine"
Examples for "turpentine"
1Grind the white-lead in the oil, and add the spirits of turpentine.
2The turpentine should be stopped when the skin shows red from it.
3Another of oil of turpentine was on a shelf in another cabinet.
4The rosemary is very soothing, and the turpentine creates a drawing sensation.
5Perhaps it is the smell of turpentine that goes to his head.
1Moistening the rag slightly with turps he carefully removed the paint from Sweater's sleeve.
2Sloshing around in those vats were many, many litres of cleaning products, isopropyl alcohol, turps and ethers.
3He had a piece of clean rag in his tool bag, and there was a can of turps in the room.
4Just days out from his final -an event he's spent more than 12 years trying to reach -he hit the turps.
5They began the process by first wiping down the old, white fridge with turps before rinsing it with water and sanding it down.
1Another of oil of turpentine was on a shelf in another cabinet.
2When nearly cool, add about an equal quantity of oil of turpentine.
3Strong mercurial ointment one ounce; soft soap one ounce; oil of turpentine, a pint 11.
4Suppose a tube with glass ends containing oil of turpentine to be placed north and south.
5Make a solution of two ounces of essence of lemon, and one ounce oil of turpentine.
1Alcohol, ether, benzol, spirit of turpentine, and petroleum take fire on contact.
2The spirit of turpentine is much used by the inhabitants.
3Take with you a little bottle of spirit of turpentine, and pour it into one of your country ponds.
4Grind the white-lead in the oil, and add the spirits of turpentine.
5He reached for a bottle on the shelf labelled spirits of turpentine.
6It is better to add, also, a gill of spirits of turpentine.
7Ink Stains.-Wetwith spirits of turpentine; after three hours, rub well.
8For a black marble, nothing it better than spirits of turpentine.
9Cockroaches, and all vermin, have an aversion to spirits of turpentine.
10Rub the ivory handles which have become stained, with whiting and spirits of turpentine.
11Spirits of turpentine, three drachms; camphorated oil, nine drachms.
12Mix together two ounces spirits of turpentine, one ounce corrosive sublimate, and one pint alcohol.
13French spirits of turpentine is mainly composed of terebenthene.
14Taking these two points together, it is hardly possible to adulterate spirits of turpentine without detection.
15One bar of turpentine soap, three table-spoonfuls of spirits of turpentine, half a tumbler of water.
16Dissolve the beeswax in the spirits of turpentine, with a gentle heat, and mix the paint warm.
Translations for spirit of turpentine